"Honey Love" is a 1954 song by The Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter. With influences taken from calypso music, "Honey Love" was the group's third single release, fourth release on the charts and second number one single on the R&B chart.[2]
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![]() Side A of US 10-inch (78 RPM) single | ||||
Single by The Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter | ||||
B-side | "Warm Your Heart"[1] | |||
Released | May 1954 | |||
Genre | Rhythm and blues | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Songwriter(s) | Clyde McPhatter / Jerry Wexler | |||
Producer(s) | Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler | |||
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Soon after release, the song was targeted by police in Memphis, confiscating copies of the record before they could be loaded into local jukeboxes due to their objection to what they described as 'suggestive lyrics' in the song.[3][4][5]
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